The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-05
FLOOD AT CINCINNATI, rFE9

some Parts OF the City Iuundnted-Further
Damage Feared.
q CINCINNATI, O., Fob. The river
reached fifty.four feet eight inches at 12
O'Clock to-day and is still rising at tho rate
OF m inch an hour. The apparent de-
Election to tho north Of the cold wave in
creases the possibility OF a disastrous food
here. Access to the Central passenger
depot is now cut OF, and the Cincinnati
Southern, the Cincinnati, indianapolis,
St. Louis and Chicago, the Ohio and Mis-
sissippi, the Bee Line, the New York,
Pennsylvsnis and Ohio, the Cincinnati,
Washington and Baltimore, and the
Columbus and Cincinnati Midland roads
are compelled TO discharge and receive
passengers ct the Eighth street crossing.
Freight movements are also seriously on.
dangered, and little more rise will cut
OF como Of tho freight dcpots.
Tho entirs water front from Turkey
Bottoms to Mill Creek Valley is one long
line OF human trepidatiou. At the public
landing tho scene is confusing. Halt the
people are rushing to get goods out OF the
vet. The other hs,f are idlers, taking in
the sights. Tobacco warehousemen are
preparing to move their ponderors pack.
ages. Tho locd is creeping up on Water
street. and Rat and Sausage rows are clean
out CT sight. Merchants on Sycamore,
Main, Vine and Walnut streets have
moved their goods TO tho second stories.
Cellsis on the public landing are full,
Tho Newport ferry anchors against house
OF tho loot OF Ludlow street, and all the
floats along the rows bump against the
houses. The big wharibosts ere high up
the grade, end what remains oi dry ground
is tull OF stevedores and othera who are
trying to get freight out Of the way.
soME OF THE INcoSvESIENCEs.
the lag. steamboat out lest night gas
the Fleetwood. Shs had to take the orne.
mentu of her pilot houEe srd lower he,
jlckstafl to get under the Newport bridge,
Tho Paris 9. Brown has postponed her
departure for New Orleans until Tuesday
OF noxt week. No mora big ateamboata
can pass under the bridges until the flood
passes. Bosts arriving will land above the
Newport bridge or below the Suspension
bridgG.
A Iiss Of Sc ieet will compel the Ohio &
Mississippi to trSnafnr at Storrs Station,
but that is not expected now. 1t will tax Q
8 rise OF IS feet 10 shut out tho Panhandle
depot, nnd as the water is only rising !,
inches on hour, with no probability Of its
going over 81 feet, the Panhandle people
do not feel alarmed. There will bs no
cessation OF passenger and freight traffic
st their dspot. =
Disastrous floods are reported in tho
Big Sandy, Little Miami and the Licking
rivers. At Falmouth, on the latter river,
distiiIeries and saw mills and other manu-.
factories were submerged End suffered
much loss. The river was full of tho
contents Of fields and granariss. Many
turnpike bridges hsve been carried away
throuehout the country. Al Butler, KY,
the Licking ia within q few inches Of the
highest mark known, which was in 1854.
In Newport, KY, there is already con-
siderable enCroschmeot on the lower por-
tions OF tho city. Six inches moro Of
water will cut OF street car travel between
Newport aud Covington. 4.i.;